Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities

数字化 TCN：合作研究：建立苔藓植物和地衣的全球联盟：隐生菌群落的基石

• 批准号: 2001299
• 负责人: Kenneth Cameron
• 金额: $ 36.38万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; Building

This collaborative project comprised of ten awards will integrate information about bryophytes and lichens, with each other and with their commensal organisms, including fungi, on a worldwide scale. Bryophytes and lichens are functionally related as the main hosts for cryptobiotic communities forming minute "forests" that provide a matrix of habitats for many microscopic organisms, including tardigrades, mites, rotifers, micro-mollusks, microalgae, microfungi, and prokaryotes. These communities have global relevance and perform essential functions on our planet, for example, the biological soil crusts that harbor these communities form a "living skin" covering approximately 12% of Earth's terrestrial surface. In addition, professional training will be provided for a large number of undergraduates, with a focus on leveraging local resources to promote underrepresented students in STEM fields. Students will be trained in digitization and collections management, and will contribute to the education and public outreach components of the project. Through this collaboration, twenty-five US herbaria will image and digitize associated metadata for almost 1.2 million bryophyte and lichen herbarium specimens held in US institutions. Imaging the physical specimens of these organisms and integrating data from comparative genomics, nucleotide sequence data, and other resources is unprecedented on this scale. These integrated data will form a critical resource for evolutionary and ecological studies, that may, in turn, lead to a deeper understanding of (1) how biocrusts perform their ecosystem functions, (2) the roles of bryophytes and lichens in carbon/nitrogen cycling, (3) the dynamic evolution of symbioses in space and time, (4) the historical and contemporary drivers of endophyte co-diversification, and (5) the evolution of biodiversity using spatial phylogenetics. Deep-learning approaches using repurposed digital images may also provide powerful new investigative tools. Digitized data will be shared with iDigBio.org and other repositories. A multi-pronged approach to broader impacts spans from K-12 to participatory citizen science initiatives. These include (1) diverse digital, interactive, and object-based learning outreach programs; (2) online lesson plans; (3) science youth groups; (4) Science Clubs and public educator workshops; and (5) a series of videos using Learning Glass – which collapses the perspectives of viewer and presenter into one shared perspective. In addition, the PIs and collaborating institutions will host WeDigBio and K-12 clubs hosting label transcription crowdsourcing events during the award period. The project also partners with Zooniverse, leaders in online citizen science, where we will develop an online platform for citizen scientists to make observations on character traits that can then enhance metadata not always on the scientific label data.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个合作的项目完成了十个奖项，将在全球范围内将有关苔藓植物和地衣的信息彼此融合，并与包括真菌在内的共生生物（包括真菌）。苔藓植物和地衣在功能上是与隐形生物群落的主要宿主相关的，形成了微小的“森林”，为许多微观生物提供了栖息地的矩阵，包括Tardigrades，螨虫，旋转膜，微型膜，微毛状，微毛，微藻类，微牙和Prokaryotes。这些社区具有全球相关性，并在我们的星球上发挥重要作用，例如，藏有这些群落的生物学痉挛构成了“生命皮肤”，占地约12％的陆地表面。此外，还将为大量的本科生提供专业培训，重点是利用当地资源来促进STEM领域中代表性不足的学生。学生将接受数字化和收集管理的培训，并将为该项目的教育和公共外展贡献做出贡献。通过这项合作，25种美国植物草图将对美国机构中近120万个苔藓植物和地衣植物标本室物种进行形象和数字化相关的元数据。在此规模上，将这些生物的物理物质成像，并从比较基因组学，核苷酸序列数据和其他资源中整合数据。这些综合数据将成为进化和生态学研究的关键资源，反过来，可能会更深入地了解（1）生物属性如何执行其生态系统功能，（2）briyophyts and Gledens在碳/氮气环境中的作用，（3）在太空和时代（4）（4）（4）（4）的动态发展（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）使用空间系统发育学的生物多样性进化。使用重新利用的数字图像的深入学习方法也可能提供强大的新调查工具。数字化数据将与idigbio.org和其他存储库共享。从K-12参与公民科学倡议的多管齐下方法。其中包括（1）潜水员数字，互动和基于对象的学习外展计划； （2）在线课程计划； （3）科学青年团体； （4）科学俱乐部和公共教育工作者研讨会； （5）一系列使用学习玻璃的视频 - 将观众和演示者的观点崩溃为一个共同的观点。此外，PIS和合作机构将在奖励期内主持Wedigbio和K-12俱乐部，主持标签转录众包活动。该项目还与在线公民科学领导者的西诺弗斯合作，在这里我们将开发一个在线平台，以使公民科学家对性格特征进行观察，然后可以增强元数据，并不总是在科学标签数据上。该奖项反映了NSF的法规使命，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的critia criter scritia crietia criter crietia crietia crietia criitia criitia criter criteria criitia crietia crietia criteria cristia scritia cristia cripitia又诚实。